Get inspired with our coffee filter crafts for kids all year long! I love how this free standing three-dimensional 3D coffee filter pumpkin craft has so much decorating potential!
This three-dimensional project is a perfect fall craft. You can use the pumpkins to decorate throughout fall which makes this an excellent Halloween craft AND Thanksgiving craft.
Make a row of these little pumpkins for your mantle or group several together for a cute little centerpiece for the table. You can even glue it onto a piece of construction paper for a pop-up art project or to use in a holiday card.
This craft project is ideal for kindergarten and elementary age children. Preschool age children can also complete this craft with some assistance.
It’s an easy and inexpensive activity to do at home or school.
Looking for more projects like this? Don’t miss our 3D Coffee Filter Campfire, Coffee Filter Bats and our book of 15 cute coffee filter crafts.
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3D Pumpkin Coffee Filter Halloween Craft
This coffee filter pumpkin craft uses just a few common craft supplies and only takes about 20 minutes to complete (plus additional drying time).
Like most of our other Halloween crafts for kids, you can do this craft at home, as a family, or at a school. It’s a quick and easy craft to include in an art center this fall. This project also makes a wonderful Thanksgiving craft for kids.
Making these coffee filter pumpkins is a fun fine motor activity for preschool and kindergarten children that provides coloring, tracing, cutting and gluing practice.
Older children will also enjoy this craft that they can complete mostly independently.
Please note: Younger children may need assistance with the stapling step.
I love how this method of coloring the coffee filters makes it look like watercolor painting!
Kids will love spraying the coffee filters with water and watching the colors blend too. Another neat project to try is pumpkin salt painting. Both of these crafts are part science experiment, part art!
It’s important to protect your work surface by placing the coffee filters on top of a craft mat, parchment paper, zippered plastic bag, or even a paper plate before spraying.
These may require additional drying time depending on how much water is sprayed on the coffee filter during the blending stage.
3D Coffee Filter Pumpkin Craft Supplies:
- 2-3 Round White Coffee Filters
- Washable Markers
- Green and Orange Chenille Stems
- Glue Dots or Glue Stick
- Scissors
- Stapler
- Pencil (for tracing and shaping)
- Water Spray Bottle (for color blending)
- Paper Plate, parchment paper, ziploc bag or craft mat
How to Make 3D Coffee Filter Pumpkins:
Start by flattening out round coffee filters. I used three for one pumpkin.
Draw on them with orange (or a combination of yellow and orange) washable markers. Lightly color the entire area.
Tip: Coffee filters bleed color because they are so thin. Placing your coffee filter on top of a piece of construction or printer paper while coloring will help protect your work surface.
Place the colored coffee filters on a paper plate, sheet of parchment paper, craft mat or large zippered baggie and spray with water. Have fun watching the magic of the colors move and blend! Set aside to dry.
These may require additional drying time depending on how much water is sprayed on the coffee filter during the blending stage.
Once your coffee filters are dry, it is time to make your pumpkin shapes!
First, begin by stacking your coffee filters and then folding your coffee filter in half, then in half again and again until you have a total of 3 folds (see picture).
Next, trace a rounded half-pumpkin shape keeping the bottom as flat as possible so it is easy to stand.
Carefully cut along your trace line.
Once all of your cuts are made, while keeping the pumpkins folded, stack them together and add one staple along the fold line horizontally aligning with the folded edge.
Next, using your glue dots or glue stick, attach both the orange and green chenille stems also along the fold line.
I cut the chenille stems into 4” pieces and then trimmed them later.
Once the chenille stems are glued in, enclose them between two of the flaps, gluing the pieces together to hide where you attached the stems.
Finally, carefully fan out your pumpkin, shaping it, until it can stand on its own.
Lastly, using a pencil or paintbrush, carefully twist the green chenille stem around one end to make a twist.
That’s it!
More Fall Craft Ideas:
3D Coffee Filter Pumpkin Craft
Make this cute three dimensional coffee filter pumpkin for a fun fall craft.
Materials
- 2-3 Round White Coffee Filters
- Washable Markers
- Chenille Stems - Green, Orange
- Glue Dots or Glue Stick
Tools
- Scissors
- Stapler
- Pencil (for tracing and shaping)
- Water Spray Bottle (for color blending)
- Paper Plate, parchment paper, ziploc bag or craft mat
Instructions
- Start by flattening out round coffee filters. I used three for one pumpkin.
- Draw on them with orange (or a combination of yellow and orange) washable markers. Lightly color the entire area.
- Place the colored coffee filters on a paper plate, sheet of parchment paper, craft mat or large zippered baggie and spray with water. Have fun watching the magic of the colors move and blend! Set aside to dry.
- Once your coffee filters are dry, it is time to make your pumpkin shapes!
- First, begin by stacking your coffee filters and then folding your coffee filter in half, then in half again and again until you have a total of 3 folds.
- Next, trace a rounded half-pumpkin shape keeping the bottom as flat as possible so it is easy to stand.
- Carefully cut along your trace line.
- Once all of your cuts are made, while keeping the pumpkins folded, stack them together and add one staple along the fold line horizontally aligning with the folded edge.
- Next, using your glue dots or glue stick, attach both the orange and green chenille stems also along the fold line.
- I cut the chenille stems into 4” pieces and then trimmed them later.
- Once the chenille stems are glued in, enclose them between two of the flaps, gluing the pieces together to hide where you attached the stems.
- Finally, carefully fan out your pumpkin, shaping it, until it can stand on its own.
- Lastly, using a pencil or paintbrush, carefully twist the green chenille stem around one end to make a twist.
Notes
Coffee filters bleed color because they are so thin. Placing your coffee filter on top of a piece of construction or printer paper while coloring will help protect your work surface.
These may require additional drying time depending on how much water is sprayed on the coffee filter during the blending stage.